by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Sep 7, 2016 | Freshwater Turtles, Snapping Turtle, Spiny Softshell Turtle, Spotted Turtle, Western Painted Turtle
In this video, Wildlife Preservation Canada’s biologists in the field tell you all about nesting behaviour, protection, and what you can do to...
by Wildlife Preservation Canada | Sep 23, 2015 | Freshwater Turtles, Spiny Softshell Turtle
The magic number is – 111 spiny softshell hatchlings released this season! Based on the hatching rate calculated from wild nests, Louis and the team estimated that approximately 100 turtles would not have hatched without intervention, meaning that they...
by Louis Lazure | Sep 2, 2015 | Freshwater Turtles, Spiny Softshell Turtle
We released more than 100 hatchlings in the wild in the past weeks. This year, the water was clear and current was weak, therefore it seems it was good conditions for a smooth reintroduction to the wild. I even saw a turtle I had released a week earlier! Not much to...
by Louis Lazure | Aug 24, 2015 | Freshwater Turtles, Spiny Softshell Turtle
Yes it’s time to release our baby turtles at the site their mothers chose to lay their eggs in June. Five nests already hatched here at the zoo. The releases were uneventful, fortunately, except that it is certainly a critical moment for hatchling survival. We...
by Louis Lazure | Aug 14, 2015 | Freshwater Turtles, Spiny Softshell Turtle
Seems that we are the last WPC turtle project to get hatchlings, but they are finally here! Just as predicted, after 60 days of incubation, our first nest hatched last night. Except for one unfertile egg that was removed after starting to rot, they all hatched....
by christina | Aug 6, 2015 | Freshwater Turtles, Snapping Turtle, Spiny Softshell Turtle
Volunteering with the Freshwater Turtle Conservation Project for the past two weeks has been a blast! It started and ended with lots of rain, which is not always fun when tenting, but the turtles love it! I was really excited to get up close to the different species...
